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Little League Baseball and bowling leagues when I was younger then basketball then volleyball then tennis about the time I graduated from high school! I have been going on tennis almost exclusively ever since!

Bowling??!!?? I'd be making a serious redneck joke here, except that I remember Buckeye is pretty sensitive to such jokes...

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Good luck on the court is nice to have, but it's usually extraneous when playing against Baker.

Little League Baseball and bowling leagues when I was younger then basketball then volleyball then tennis about the time I graduated from high school! I have been going on tennis almost exclusively ever since!

Bowling??!!?? I'd be making a serious redneck joke here, except that I remember Buckeye is pretty sensitive to such jokes...

You got something wrong with bowling!?!?!?!?!?!?!!? BTW, my neck is red! I got sunburned working outside all day yesterday!

Ah, come on, enlighten us with this one of your endless redneck jokes! I guess we know what kind of jokes you heard often while growing up (assuming that you have grown up)! Must be a Xenia thang!?!?!?!?!?!

wilson and Dallas, I competed in field events (long-jump and triple-jump). Track & Field was my 3nd sport. Chicago has every major/minor sport, but no tennis or track to speak of. That has always pissed me off. When I still lived in Cali, I used to go to the track meets at Cal and Stanford and make the trip to SoCal for the HS state championships. Living in California, I saw a lot of national records set. The highlight was 1993 when Marion Jones set the HS national records for the 100, 200 and long-jump in one afternoon.

I got to compete in some invitationals (best of times!) and made it as far a the regionals.

For those on this site that don't play tennis.......I was wondering why you don't, if you will?????

After reading several posts by certain individuals, I've wondered the same thing and think it would be a good idea for its own thread. But I suspect you won't get a bite. There are nuances to any sport you simply miss altogether unless you've played. For instance, I only played one year of organized basketball--7th grade. I can watch a basketball game, and point out the obvious. But put me on a court, and I'm totally lost.

You got something wrong with bowling!?!?!?!?!?!?!!? BTW, my neck is red! I got sunburned working outside all day yesterday!

Ah, come on, enlighten us with this one of your endless redneck jokes! I guess we know what kind of jokes you heard often while growing up (assuming that you have grown up)! Must be a Xenia thang!?!?!?!?!?!

Now, much as I'd like to come out with another redneck joke, my conscience just won't let me, because I'm a good guy, and I feel bad about how hard Buckeye took it the last time. So instead of cracking another joke, I decided to enlighten myself a bit, and do a little research on my pal Buckeye. And after I found this article, I became doubly concerned: http://giftedkids.about.com/b/a/007321.htm. Looks like there's a frequent correlation between people who are intense (which Buckeye prides himself on in matches), and very sensitive. The article also mentions "imaginational", which might frequently be used to describe Buckeye's lofty thoughts of his own game.

Perhaps I should look for a class to take, to help me deal with my "gifted" dubs partner a little better?

Greg

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Good luck on the court is nice to have, but it's usually extraneous when playing against Baker.

You got something wrong with bowling!?!?!?!?!?!?!!? BTW, my neck is red! I got sunburned working outside all day yesterday!

Ah, come on, enlighten us with this one of your endless redneck jokes! I guess we know what kind of jokes you heard often while growing up (assuming that you have grown up)! Must be a Xenia thang!?!?!?!?!?!

Now, much as I'd like to come out with another redneck joke, my conscience just won't let me, because I'm a good guy, and I feel bad about how hard Buckeye took it the last time. So instead of cracking another joke, I decided to enlighten myself a bit, and do a little research on my pal Buckeye. And after I found this article, I became doubly concerned: http://giftedkids.about.com/b/a/007321.htm. Looks like there's a frequent correlation between people who are intense (which Buckeye prides himself on in matches), and very sensitive. The article also mentions "imaginational", which might frequently be used to describe Buckeye's lofty thoughts of his own game.

Perhaps I should look for a class to take, to help me deal with my "gifted" dubs partner a little better?

wilson and Dallas, I competed in field events (long-jump and triple-jump). Track & Field was my 3nd sport. Chicago has every major/minor sport, but no tennis or track to speak of. That has always pissed me off. When I still lived in Cali, I used to go to the track meets at Cal and Stanford and make the trip to SoCal for the HS state championships. Living in California, I saw a lot of national records set. The highlight was 1993 when Marion Jones set the HS national records for the 100, 200 and long-jump in one afternoon.

I got to compete in some invitationals (best of times!) and made it as far a the regionals.

whoa!! Marion jones went to your high school?! wow, that's amazing

yeah, Florida is HUGE on track! They have like club seasons over the summer and it reminds me of like pro tennis.... b/c we have to travel all over and it's like the same people at the different locations... and everyone knows who the ones to beat are. :P

You have to have been a viewer of Saturday Night Live to get this one back in the mid to late 70's.

But baseball was my game, then hoops. That was the only sport that I ever got any good at.

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I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. - Mitch Hedberg

You have to have been a viewer of Saturday Night Live to get this one back in the mid to late 70's.

But baseball was my game, then hoops. That was the only sport that I ever got any good at.

I thought this was Tony Perez who used to say that????

Garrett Morris of the original cast of the "Not Ready For Primetime Players." (SNL)

Babble wins the prize!

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I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. - Mitch Hedberg